El Paso Del Gigante · Grupo Sonador

79 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:27 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 90% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-6, 8-28 and 32-35, and 3 more places -- 89.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 90 BPM
EL PASO DEL GIGANTE · BAR 4
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 7 and 36.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

79 bars across 2 sections: 71 keep time, 2 are fills, 4 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-28.

OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is El Paso Del Gigante?

90 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is El Paso Del Gigante hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in El Paso Del Gigante?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 7 and 36.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED
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